Medicated peg



July 16, 1929. E. L. DILLMAN 1.7213

MEDICATED PEG Filed June 26. 1928 INVENTOR wlTN ssEs Edward L Dztllman ATTORNEY Patented July 16, 1929.

PATENT. OFFICE}.

EDWARD 1;. DILLMAN, or new roux, N. Y.

MEDICA'IED PEG.

Application tiled June 26,

My invention relates to medicated pegs, and I use this term because the device is in the nature of a peg which can be grasped by the fingers or by a proper instrument and forced 5 to move with a certain degree of pressure into a tooth cavity or other opening and broken off at the desired place.

An object of the invention is to provide a medicated peg or point which is dry, reason- 1 ably hard but brittle, which is readily soluble, and is adapted to relieve pain, to'heal wounds or perform any analogous function as a medi cated sanitary device.

The specific useof my invention is to relieve toothache and the, peg can be easily forced intothe cavity of the tooth, or in the openingof the gum after a tooth is withdrawn, and broken off so as to leave the properlength of peg in the cavity or opening, and the peg will dissolve and adhere to the surfaces so that its antiseptic and medicatedqualities may have-free and full application to the nerves and tissues so as to relieve pain and heal a wound.

I of course do not wish to be limited to the particular use to which my improved-medicated peg may be put-as it has a wide range of usefulness and. itsingredients may be varied so as to adapt the peg forany use. v

I am of course aware thatsuppositories and other more or less ,soft and sticky medicated devices have been employed but my improved peg is dry, reasonably hard but brittle, and can be handled-easily andmostief fectuall'y forced into a cavity or other wound and broken off at the lengthdesired, which makes it'altogether a'difl'ernt article from suppositories, pellets and other forms of artid clenow in use.

Further objects will hereinafter appear in connection with the following description.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 illustrates theoperation of placing one of my improved pegs in the cavity of a tooth;

- Figure 2 is a perspective view greatly enlarged of one of my improved pegs.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 rep 1928; Serial No. 288,460.

resents'my improved peg, which is shown as of somewhat wedge-shape, tapering to a point 2, and thispoint may. be as blunt or as sharp as desired, and the peg may of course be otherwise shaped without departing from my invention.

In? Figure 1 I illustrate the peg 1 grasped between the thumb and finger of a hand 3 and in the operation of being forced into a cavity 4 of a tooth 5. When the peg is forced into the cavity it is broken off at the surface of the tooth by a lateral movement of the is dissolved by the saliva of the mouth and completely fills the cavityand exposed nerve passages so as to stop the pain.

In making my improved pegs I may employ a wide range of materials but," in any hand, leaving a length of peg in the cavity and this portion in the cavity of the tooth event, the material will be dry and pegs cut or I otherwise formed-therefrom, so that the finished peg will be dry, relatively hard but brittle.

As an example of a composition that may be employed in making the peg, I compound novocain, novesthene, mercurochrome, pyridium, eugenol, thymol, in synergistic combination, activatedby a catalytic agent which produces prolonged anaesthesia. I

'It is of course not necessary for me to enumerate the many uses to which a peg of this character maybe put as I desire to-cover broadly the idea of a peg or a device of this character under any other name.

I claim: 1 As a new article of manufacture, a pointed medicated brittle absorbent pegof a length adapted to be grasped between the thumb and finger ofa hand and forced into the cavity of a tooth or wound, and broken ofl. or-crushed,

whereby the cavity is approximately filled,

said portion in the'cavity adapted to be dissolved by the saliva of the mouth or the moisture of the wound.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 25thday of June, A. D. 1928.

EDWARD L. DILLMAN. 

